DISCOVERY BAY – About 25 gallons of diesel fuel spilled Monday from a damaged semi-truck’s fuel tank near U.S. Highway 101, requiring an emergency cleanup response to prevent it from reaching nearby Salmon Creek.
“It looks like he was trying to pull out and he didn’t have clearance,” said Bob Wilson, chief of the Discovery Bay and Quilcene fire departments.
“We’re putting it at a higher priority than normal,” Wilson said at the scene.
The unidentified driver of the truck, which was carrying flattened junk automobiles, had pulled over in the parking lot of Frank’s Surplus near the junction of Highway 101 and state Highway 20 on Monday morning.
When he tried to re-enter Highway 101, the truck bottomed out and the fuel tank scraped the ground, puncturing the tank.
